Dragon1 as Visual Project Management Software
Visualize Projects and Control them
Dragon1 is an online enterprise collaboration platform and it is fit for Project Management. Any Project Portfolio can be modeled, visualized, designed, analyzed, monitored and managed.
On this page, we will outline how you as Business Professional can use Dragon1 for Project Management. Turn projects into success stories and keep them from failure.
First of all: What is Project Management?
Project Management is a process and a series of activities for planning, organizing, motivating & controlling resources, procedures & protocols to achieve specific goals and objectives in scientific or everyday problems.
That said, people can definitely use a tool for Project Management to control the resources and planning much better.
Project Solution Architecture Designs
The Dragon1 Enterprise Architecture platform offers you the possibility to create products from scratch without any help. But you can also choose to edit a pre-filled template and work from a checklist.
For instance, the following products are often created by project managers: Project Architecture Landscape Map, Project Planning (GANTT Chart), Work Breakdown Structure and Project Team Organization Chart. For every product a checklist and a prefilled, re-usable and editable template is present.
Dragon1 defines a new artifact: the Project Landscape Map. A Project Landscape Map is a generic overview of the structure or architecture of the project organization itself.
You model and visualize your own Project Landscape Map and use it to report the status and progress of the structure of your project.
Read more about the Project Landscape Map Definition here.
A smart IT Project Auditing Checklist
Read the Blog: a Smart IT Project Auditing Checklist
You can be very productive with project management. You can follow the steps in the checklist and make sure your IT project does not fail.
This checklist walks you through steps like:
- Concept / Solution Definition
- Design Assignment
- Business Case
- Program Of Requirements
- Project Plan
- Design
- Architecture
- Test Plan
The success of a project depends significantly on the availability and alignment of milestone products. This checklist focuses on having certain milestones available and aligned in the project.
Download the Basic and Detailed Auditing Checklists for IT Projects here.
Project Portfolio Management
You can do Project Portfolio Management the way you want to do it. You can even manage several project portfolios.
Because of this, you can scan, compare, link, and analyze things across projects. So do some tracking and tracing. For instance, to provide, for example as a consultancy organization, data to your customers about how many projects work with a valid and signed-off financial business case.
Project Rationalization
You can model and visualize not only the subject or object that is designed and created by the project, but you can also model and visualize the project's structure. This enables you to ask the why & how-to questions and with that to do some rationalization on the project's subject and the project structure itself.
A lot of templates are available. Watch examples of the data visualization templates here.
Project Concepts and IT Infrastructure Principles
It is not only important to know the structure of your project concepts and IT Infrastructure principles at a logical, physical, and implementation level. In relation to your enterprise strategy, it is more than important to know the project concepts and the IT Infrastructure principles at a conceptual level.
Dragon1 as Visual Project Management Tool
Project Management Tools (PM Tools) like Dragon1 support designing and architecture Project Management solutions at a high level. You can create a Project Landscape Map to design the best Project Architecture. And you can manage your project using a Project Management Dashboard. Also, you can create products like a GANTT Chart, a Work breakdown structure, or a Product breakdown structure.